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The Root· 2 hours agoIn 1952 my grandfather built a house for his wife and six children in a small South Carolina town. The house had four bedrooms, one bathroom, a dining room and a living room you could enter ...
As Juneteenth nears, meet the UMass prof who has pushed the reparations cause for three decades
The Republican· 2 days agoFor over 30 years, Amilcar Shabazz has been on the frontlines in the fight for reparations to ease...
Visionary director Yuval Sharon isn't trying to cancel old opera. His latest fantastical piece...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOpera disrupter Yuval Sharon is back in L.A. with 'The Comet / Poppea.' The new piece — an...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 3 hours agoBlack News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
The Harlem Renaissance Was Bigger Than Harlem
The Atlantic· 4 days agoIn “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still life by...
James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLawson had also long been aware of Black America's enduring affinity for Gandhi, he told Lal. W.E.B....
She Moved Her Family to a Black Utopia. Then Things Got Weird.
New York Times· 7 days agoIn Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California...
Morgan Park receives historical road marker
WBAL-TV Baltimore· 5 days agoThe Morgan Park Community has a new roadside historical marker. In 1917, then-Morgan State College moved to its current location, but Jim Crow laws kept...
Does mental illness beget great poetry? These 4 poets exposed the sickness of a society that sought...
The Conversation· 6 days agoThe publication last year of Steven M. Weine’s Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness has reinvigorated enduring questions about the relationship between mental ...
James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoUCLA historian Vinay Lal remembers speaking alongside the Rev. James Lawson during a panel...
